Concept of operations for the Neptune system mission Arcanum
- Author(s)
- J. E. McKevitt, S. Beegadhur, L. Ayin-Walsh, T. Dixon, F. Criscola, D. Patadia, S. Bulla, J. Galinzoga, B. Wadsworth, C. Bornberg, R. Sharma, O. Moore, J. Kent, A. Zaripova, J. Parkinson-Swift, A. Laad
- Abstract
The Arcanum mission is a proposed L-class mother-daughter spacecraft configuration for the Neptunian system, the mass and volume of which have been maximised to highlight the wide-ranging science the next generation of launch vehicles will enable. The spacecraft is designed to address a long-neglected but high-value region of the outer Solar System, showing that current advances make such a mission more feasible than ever before. This paper adds to a series on Arcanum and specifically provides progress on the study of areas identified as critical weaknesses by the 2013-2022 decadal survey and areas relevant to the recently published Voyage 2050 recommendations to the European Space Agency (ESA).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- University College London
- Journal
- Aeronautical Journal
- Volume
- 128
- Pages
- 469-488
- No. of pages
- 20
- ISSN
- 0001-9240
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.114
- Publication date
- 03-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics, 103038 Space exploration
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Aerospace Engineering
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8a69251c-5af7-4777-92d6-e949f609b59f